NDT’s not even going to mention that Santa probably solved or approximately solved the traveling salesman problem for a complete graph of several hundred million vertices embedded in a spherical topology?
I suppose if he’s magic he doesn’t need to solve anything.
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Lazy ass parents not bothering to update the believability of Santa Claus. Just say there are multiple Santa’s all around the globe that work together. That’s why Santa sometimes looks different when you see him at different places. That’s why there can be a Black Santa, or Asian Santa.
Why is Santa only delivering to Christians?
Probably because he was a Christian.
He’s dead. I’m sorry, son
That’s why us filthy secularists gift each other.
Localized time dilation of course!
Santa likes rich kids more than poor ones.
Hey, so does God.
All in due time, it is silly to put so much value on one or a few days. Every day can be Christmas when we treat each other well. Good will come to those who deserve, time will tell.
It’s a clever quantum operation where all the houses are entangled in a superposition and moved into a state where all the presents are delivered. So when one kid opens the present the state collapses and all the presents are delivered.
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This joke is at least 35 years old. https://www.physlink.com/Fun/IsThereSanta.cfm
Santa is a shared delusion running on people’s minds in a distributed fashion, known in magic occult spheres as an egregore. All of those minds then manifest Santa by their own deeds and the spread of Santa memes. Santa‘s sled is everywhere at once as the sequence of delivered packages doesn’t matter. One Santa manifested everywhere through human thought and action.
Isn’t this how gods worked in Terry Pratchett’s books?
You’re thinking of American Gods by Gaiman.
My god is YouTube. TV is dead.
No, but it is basically how Santa worked, as seen in Hogfather.
Gods are a species that become more powerful the more worshippers they have and essentially powerless when they have no followers, as seen in Small Gods.
Wasn’t the Hogfather an old winter god?
Maybe? It’s been a while.
Ffs that guy is annoying. Did not even do the math, which should have told him that hypersonic does not even scratch the surface unless he has an extremely wide drop-off region.
I thought he could have been the next Carl Sagan, but instead, he’s that guy you never invite to parties.
I dunno about you, but I’m not sure if I’d have invited Carl Sagan either…it’d take him ~13.8 billion years just to get dessert ready.
And definitely don’t marry him!
I can’t believe you’re really taking his comment seriously?! He made a post about Santa’s reindeer and sleigh vaporizing due to the speed of travel. It’s supposed to be absurd, not a science lesson.
It’s a little ironic that you say NDT is annoying for his joke while complaining that his math (from a joke) does’nt make sense.
See? Eheran GOT YOU. He knew that Tyson was joking, so he played it straight and made you look like a dupe!
Oh wait, you’re doing the straight man switcheroo, I’ve been bamboozled again.
I got such a kick out of this, thanks be to you!
Santa superpostion.
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